Thursday, January 21, 2010

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The Corpotocracy Parade Further Into Fascism

Overturning laws 20 years old, against the intent of laws 100+ years old, the Supreme Court today has voted to allow corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on campaigns thus opening the door for the corporate purchase of our government and our way of life.


h/t Agent 99

Join Free Speech for People in their resolution to overturn this despicable judgment.

From Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer

The decision will unleash unprecedented amounts of corporate "influence-seeking" money on our elections and create unprecedented opportunities for corporate "influence-buying" corruption.

Today's decision is the most radical and destructive campaign finance decision in Supreme Court history. In order to reach the decision, five justices abandoned longstanding judicial principles, judicial precedents and judicial restraint.

With the Citizens United opinion, Chief Justice Roberts has abandoned the illusory public commitments he made to "judicial modesty" and "respect for precedent" to cast the deciding vote for a radical decision that profoundly undermines our democracy.

In a stark choice between the right of American citizens to a government free from "influence-buying" corruption and the economic and political interests of American corporations, five Supreme Court Justices today came down in favor of American corporations.

With a stroke of the pen, five Justices wiped out a century of American history devoted to preventing corporate corruption of our democracy.


Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold had this to say:
It is important to note that the decision does not affect McCain-Feingold’s soft money ban, which will continue to prevent corporate contributions to the political parties from corrupting the political process. But this decision was a terrible mistake. Presented with a relatively narrow legal issue, the Supreme Court chose to roll back laws that have limited the role of corporate money in federal elections since Teddy Roosevelt was president. Ignoring important principles of judicial restraint and respect for precedent, the Court has given corporate money a breathtaking new role in federal campaigns. Just six years ago, the Court said that the prohibition on corporations and unions dipping into their treasuries to influence campaigns was ‘firmly embedded in our law.’ Yet this Court has just upended that prohibition, and a century's worth of campaign finance law designed to stem corruption in government. The American people will pay dearly for this decision when, more than ever, their voices are drowned out by corporate spending in our federal elections. In the coming weeks, I will work with my colleagues to pass legislation restoring as many of the critical restraints on corporate control of our elections as possible.
More at neufneuf - we just lost wwii
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13 comments:

  1. I wish you would include the stuff I've added about the Tea Partiers.

    THIS IS SERIOUS SHIT.

    WE JUST LOST WORLD WAR II....

    Yes, we fucking well did, and if we can't turn it around IMMEDIATELY we are going to have to pray we can get out of the country.

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  2. One more goose step in the Corpotocracy Parade toward Fascism.

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  3. I wish you would include the stuff I've added about the Tea Partiers.

    This evening...

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  4. Corpotocracy Parade toward Fascism

    I like that

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  5. Bb2; Thanks.
    I hope people understand how severe this really is.
    China is the model for the NWO.
    I knew this was coming, I just never thought it would happen this fast. WE ARE IN BIG EFFEN TROUBLE.
    The clock is now ticking.

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  6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BVqIjKyJh0&feature=related


    Remember the movie Network. Way ahead of its time. Or was it?
    They have been working on this for decades.

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  7. RZ -- I gotta quibble with the term "toward fascism".

    THIS IS A FASCIST COUNTRY, AND TODAY'S DECISION WAS JUST THE OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF IT!!!!!!!!

    I'm on fire.

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  8. You guys really gotta try to find the time to listen to the Nafeez Ahmed interview I posted tonight. LOTS of important stuff in there!

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  9. 99; Oh, i agree. You I and many others have known for a long time that we exist under a party of one. But as you say NOW it is official. I just fear that the masses will still no tget it. They have been programmed [brain washed] well.

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  10. There 99 - I revised the title to more accurately portray the situation.
    ;)

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  11. We gotta make ultra loud noise about it to EVERYONE... right, left, center, fringe, EVERYONE... give strokes to guys like the vet calling for the arrest of the five Justices. NO EXCUSES!!!!! Gripe about it in line at the grocery store, bank, post office, wherever you go and whoever you talk to!!!!!!

    Otherwise, for sure people are going to clam up instead of fight.

    EVERYONE.

    Praise tea partiers! EVERYONE. KO was too mild. It's going to be a lot worse, a lot faster than he let on.

    BB2, I love you.

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  12. HEY! HOW MANY HOURS TILL NEW COMMENTS COME UP ON THE RECENT COMMENTS WIDGET ANYWAY?

    :mad:

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  13. It's kind of slow, a few times it has even been a white box for a minute or two.

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